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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Kazakh newspaper taken over by government

The continuing pressure on the press in Kazakhstan has come to a head with the evicting of editors from the offices of the weekly newspaper Karavan. The paper is still being published in an almost identical-looking version - but it is now under government control. According to the International Press Institute, the paper's journalists have been intimidated by "threats and bribes" to go on working. IPI's director, Johann Fritz, says: "The de facto takeover of Karavan appears to be part of a concerted campaign of harassment against media outlets owned by President Nursultan Nazarbayev's former son-in-law, Rakhat Aliyev." (Via IFEX)

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